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Actions are but events without any colour. They become good or bad, right or wrong, kind or cruel depending upon our atActions should be noble and good. No action should be performed without enough preparation and precision. And above all, we have to be cautious with regard to the consequences while performing an action. If actions are undertaken from delusion, heedless of consequences, then we call them Tamasic actions.
On the last day of the Mahabharata war, in the midnight, Aswathama mercilessly massacred the sleeping Pandava warriors and the Upapandavas for no fault of theirs. And Arjuna taught him a lesson. Intoxicated with wealth and excessive pleasure, the Yadava descendents in Dwaraka played a practical joke to humiliate the rishis. A lad was dressed as a pregnant woman and taken to the rishis with a request to predict whether a male or female child would be born to the 'lady'. The rishis cursed and the Yadu dynasty was destroyed.
Unmindful of the consequences and out of sheer ignorance and delusion King Parikshit placed a dead snake round the neck of Samika Maharshi. And Sringi, the son of the sage cursed the king to the effect that the king would die of snake bite on the seventh day.
Tamasic actions are always disastrous.
"The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil-doers only adds to the evil in the -world. But if the people can be made to desist from evil doing, by means of spiritual instruction, there is no more evil in the world.
It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!
Do not say. "You are bad"; say only, "You are good", but be better! "--- Swami Vivekananada
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